Minneapple in the Big Apple

Minnesotan Music-Maker Dustin Lee: This Friday!

jayackley — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:04:05 +0000

Hey Beautiful Minnesotans -

If you’re looking for some home-spun music and good times in the LES this Friday, come check out Dustin Lee at the Parkside Lounge (10pm, 6$, 317 E Houston).

Here’s a great performance of him on WCCO recently!

Hope you can make it!

April Blizzards in Minnesota Bring May Happy Hours in NYC!

jayackley — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:16:19 +0000

hope that you have all had the same pleasure that I have over the past couple weeks watching Brooklyn and the City become beautiful spring naturelands while watching(/laughing) from afar as Minnesota continues to be buried in snow.

Let us celebrate all the Minnesota gumption of our friends and relatives back home with a Minneapple Happy Hour this Friday at the outdoor bar Hot Bird on Atlantic and Clinton in Brooklyn!

Delicious and reasonably priced beers, as well all the good cheer you could hope for from a band of fantastic Minnesotans. Let’s bring in the summer of Minneapples in Brooklyn right!

See you there! RSVP here

Minneapple Tomorrow!!!

jayackley — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:37:22 +0000

Come for drinks and SO MUCH good cheer!

https://www.facebook.com/events/444101292331212/ !

Minneapple April Showers! (of beer into your mouth!)

jayackley — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:58:46 +0000

Hello Beautiful Minnesotans!

I can’t believe we’re already ready for another Minnesota Happy Hour! Although we’re technically into Spring and it’s probably warm enough out there to do an outdoor happy hour, we just love LPR and the Gallery Bar so much (plus, the current exhibit looks fantastic) that we’ll do one last trip there before starting the Brooklyn Summer Series!

Same drill as per usual! Trivia, happy hour beers and well-drinks, tater tots, a brief singalong of the anthem and Minnesotan camaraderie Tell all your midwestern friends and I’ll try to make sure there’s enough chex-mix for one and all!

7-10pm at 158 Bleecker Street! See you there!

March Minneapple – Last of the Winter Ale

jayackley — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:45:28 +0000

Last week when I got home from work and there was still a hint of sun in the sky I knew that New York was just about through with another dark and dreary winter.

To celebrate the impending springtime bounty join your fellow Minnesotans in New York for reasonably priced beer, tater tots, laughs, and debauchery at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker) next Friday, March 1st from 7-10!

Happy hour prices til 8 and DJ Cherry Spoon will be spinning all your favorite Husker Du and Rhymesayers goodness!

Suggestions welcome for any MN-related wonderful competition/activity to figure out how to give away free beers! Otherwise get ready for some scattergories!

RSVP here please!

2/1/13 Warm and Snuggly Minneapple!

jayackley — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:35:09 +0000

Now that we’ve had our first proper week of sub-freezing NYC weather, I’m hoping you can all come to the my favorite event this coming Friday February 1st – Minnesota Monthly Warm and Snuggly Edition!

Same drill as per usual – tater tots, sing-a-long, extra-nice people, delicious/cheap beer – but instead of the usual trivia, we’ll be having a ‘Most-Minnesotan-Sweater’ award (prize is free drinks or a t-shirt!).

I want to be very clear, this is NOT an ‘Ugliest Holiday Sweater’ competition, this is about representing our frigid motherland with your coziest and most colorful poly-blends (despite the obvious overlap, I swear there’s a difference between those two things).

7-10 at the Gallery Bar (in Le Poisson Rouge) 158 Bleecker Street – can’t wait to see you there!

Night Moves – 1/19 – Free Ticket Competition!

jayackley — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:35:36 +0000

Happy Mid-January Beautiful Minnesotans!

Do you know of the fantastic Minneapolis band Night Moves? Did you know they were playing Mercury Lounge this Saturday? Would you like free tickets? Check out this page for details on how to compete (it’s very simple)!

January 4th – Minneapple 2013!

jayackley — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:49:31 +0000

I am midway through a meandering return from the annual pilgrimage to Minneapolis (beautifully inspiring once again), so apologies for the delay – but as per usual we will be kicking off the New Year with a first Friday Happy Hour and a glorious return to the Gallery Bar at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street near the West 4th street station) this Friday January 4th from 7 to 10!

We’ll have tater tots, happy hour prices til 9, and all your favorite midwesterners in this big, beautiful, snowy (at least for the moment) city of lights.

RSVP here

Can’t wait to see you all there!

Hot Dish Bake-Off TONIGHT!

jayackley — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:00:37 +0000

Details Below – competition will be fierce and delicious!

SEE YOU THERE!

Hot Bird Hot Dish Competition – Minneapple December 7th!

jayackley — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:15:57 +0000

Beautiful Minnesotans – I can’t tell you how heartbroken I was to cancel the November Happy Hour due to bad weather – it felt very un-Minnesotan to say the least.

However – luckily the seasons keep turning and we are one week away from our December Happy Hour! You may remember that this time way back in 2010 we had a wildly successful Hot Dish competition and we’d like to do a second take!

Some of the competition from the last round!

Specifically, for a chance to win 2 “I {MN} NY” t-shirts, some beers, and any other secret surprises we can come up with, bring your most delicious Midwestern Casserole Concoctions to Hot Bird (546 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn) by 7:30 next Friday December 7th. The winning dish will be decided by voting attendees and we will all be wonderfully stuffed full of traditional Minnesotan fare while we drink the evening away. Please RSVP to the facebook invite here, post on the wall, or send me a message if you intend to compete!

Bring your hats and mittens – Hot Bird has a wonderful bonfire going, but it’ll be chilly until we get some whiskey and s’mores in us (you’re not scared of a little cold weather are you?)

We can’t wait to see all of your rosy cheeks!